Musikraft fretwork - how good?

Trying to figure out how decent Musikraft's fretwork is. I'm thinking about stainless steel frets for a neck I'll be ordering, but only wanted to go this rout if the fretwork didn't need any leveling/crowning.

No one around my neck of the woods will work on SS frets without doubling what they charge for leveling/crowning, if they even agree to work on them at all.

Their fretwork is quite excellent from my experience with them. Been using their necks regularly for about 5 years now. I always give the frets a light level and crown when I build a guitar but I'm sure it would be fine without.

I bought a neck from Musikraft with 6100 frets. The only work I did on the frets was to file down the ends slightly because there was a bit of fret end "sprout" due to the dry Winter weather shrinking the neck wood slightly.

I am playing the guitar I put that neck on now and the frets are perfect (with no further crowning after I received it from Musikraft). No buzzes anywhere... neck is perfectly straight. I have no need to have anything done to the frets.

Ive been using a Strat neck from them with 6100 frets and its one of the best feeling necks Ive played. I did have my tech polish the frets to take off the nitro spray, but it didn't need any crowning at all.I would buy from them again...no worries!

I have a beautiful large volume maple neck, straight through, no fingerboard, 6105 fretted, made by Musikraft. They did a nut for it too. It has a 12" radius and will support action at 1/16" easily, could be lower, but I don't like buzzing and don't like chasing truss rods, even though I keep the relief flat. I cannot imagine selling this neck, it is a tour de force.

I have a beautiful large volume maple neck, straight through, no fingerboard, 6105 fretted, made by Musikraft. They did a nut for it too. It has a 12" radius and will support action at 1/16" easily, could be lower, but I don't like buzzing and don't like chasing truss rods, even though I keep the relief flat. I cannot imagine selling this neck, it is a tour de force.

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And it was that awesome straight out of the box? Good to know-- thanks man!

I've purchased 3 from Musikraft - a Tele, a JM, and a Jaguar neck. All 3 were perfectly level, though I polished the frets because I like my frets to be shiny and slick. The JM and the Jaguar necks both have SS frets.